Reporting Your Award

Reporting Overview

Reporting on a grant or contract budget is how UW confirms to sponsors that we have used their resources appropriately in accordance with the terms and conditions of the award agreement. Timely and accurate reporting is critical to maintaining good relationships with sponsors and ensuring future funding for the PI, the department and the university as a whole.

While this website focuses on financial reporting, researchers and departmental grant administrators should review each award to determine ALL reporting requirements. These may also include:

Note that not all budgets require financial reporting. In particular, with invoiceable budgets, the invoice transaction detail may serve the same function as a financial report for the sponsor, allowing them to monitor the allowability of expenditures.

Departmental Involvement in Financial Reporting

In most cases GCA can prepare financial reports without direct involvement from the department. When we complete a report, we notify the department via GrantTracker and upload a copy for their records.

If a report requires a level of detail or backup that GCA does not have access to, we will contact the department for assistance or ask the department to complete the report.

Note that our reporting is based on transactions posted to MyFinancial.desktop, the UW’s system of record. Please reconcile your budgets regularly so that any erroneous transactions can be corrected before reports are submitted.

If your budget’s Final Action Date is approaching and you have pending expenditures or credits, please notify GCA via Grant Tracker and provide the dollar amount, object/sub-object code and PO# (if applicable) for each pending transaction. This will allow us to include these transactions in the final report.

If the sponsor contacts you about financial reporting, please forward their email to gcahelp@uw.edu.

If you have questions or concerns about a specific budget’s financial reporting, please contact GCA via GrantTracker and select the Reporting topic.